Executive Director, Client Team

Agency: Omd Job Function: Account Management and Growth Job Subfunction: Account Management Job Description: About the Role: As an Executive Director within MG you will hold ultimate responsibility for shaping the agency’s reputation, strengthening client relationships and delivering business impact for both clients and the agency. You will oversee client relationships, drive strategic media solutions and lead business growth. This role ensures the agency delivers innovative, data-driven and results-oriented media strategies that align with client objectives. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior clients, fostering long-term partnerships and identifying opportunities for expansion and revenue growth.

The Executive Director is accountable for the profitability, retention and expansion of key client accounts. Additionally, you will play a crucial role in industry thought leadership, representing the agency at major events and driving innovation across media planning, buying and analytics.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Lead the development and execution of innovative, data-driven media strategies that drive measurable results Act as a strategic advisor to senior client stakeholders, ensuring media solutions align with business objectives Own and drive the agency’s revenue growth by identifying opportunities for upselling, cross-selling and expanding client partnerships Oversee campaign performance analysis, ensuring data-driven decision-making and continuous optimisation Define KPIs and benchmarks to measure success, providing strategic recommendations based on insights Develop and execute commercial strategies to increase profitability, secure long-term contracts and retain key accounts Establish best practices for client management, media planning and integrated marketing solutions Partner with internal teams across media planning, creative, strategy and analytics to deliver best-in-class solutions Stay ahead of emerging media trends, consumer behaviour shift and technological advancements to drive innovation Build and lead a successful, diverse and motivated team, by creating a collaborative, enriching and empathetic environment

About the Agency: MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying. ​

Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.​

MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.

With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference. ​

So, true to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative and inspirational.  ​​

We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with and who genuinely care; about each other, our clients, our media partners and doing great work. ​

In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training,